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EP1423926B1
EP1423926B1 EP01972005A EP01972005A EP1423926B1 EP 1423926 B1 EP1423926 B1 EP 1423926B1 EP 01972005 A EP01972005 A EP 01972005A EP 01972005 A EP01972005 A EP 01972005A EP 1423926 B1 EP1423926 B1 EP 1423926B1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
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    • H04B7/0615—Diversity systems; Multi-antenna system, i.e. transmission or reception using multiple antennas using two or more spaced independent antennas at the transmitting station using simultaneous transmission of weighted versions of same signal
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  • the present invention relates to a closed-loop signaling method for controlling multiple transmit beams and a correspondingly adapted transceiver device.
  • Diversity is used in communication systems such as wireless communication systems in order to enhance communication quality by transmitting information to be transmitted via various (space and/or time varying) channels.
  • Diversity arrangements can be categorized as open-loop diversity and closed-loop diversity concepts. Closed loop diversity concepts apply a feedback of information from the receiver having received a diversity transmission to the transmitter to thereby perform a feedback control of the diversity transmission.
  • the closed-loop techniques adopted in 3GPP (3 rd Generation Partnership Project) typically attempt to approximate the beamforming with perfect or average (spatial) channel state information in the transmitter. Then, one obtains array gains as the signal transmitted by the different antenna elements (forming an array) can be combined coherently. Naturally, conveying the channel state information with sufficient reliability and transmission rate can require a signaling channel of relative high capacity from the user equipment (UE) to the network and/or to the base station(s).
  • the user equipment UE according to 3GPP and/or UMTS corresponds to a mobile station according to GSM (Global Standard of Mobile Communication).
  • GSM Global Standard of Mobile Communication
  • the present invention as described herein below is, however, not limited to be applied to a specific communication standard.
  • References to UMTS 3GPP standard currently being developed serve as a mere example only and are not limiting the scope of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 shows in rough outline the feedback control arrangement for closed-loop diversity concepts.
  • a communication network NW e.g. UMTS or GSM or any other network
  • NW e.g. UMTS or GSM or any other network
  • the Node_B is provided with an array of antennas (not shown) from which a corresponding plurality of beams emerges in direction of the user equipment UE.
  • Each beam in downlink direction travels and/or propagates via a transmission channel that can be represented by its channel transfer function h.
  • the array of antennas thus leads to a matrix of channel transfer functions H representing the transmission behavior of the Node_B.
  • a Node_B and/or base station represents a first transceiver, while a user equipment UE and/or mobile station represents a second transceiver.
  • the invention is not restricted to this but can be applied for any similar multi-antenna transmitter-receiver concept.
  • the second transceiver Upon receiving a plurality of at least two beams from the first transceiver via the plurality of transmission channels at the second transceiver, the second transceiver performs a well known processing to e.g. obtain the channel transfer functions (estimates), and derives control information for being fed back from said second transceiver UE to said first transceiver Node_B in order to accomplish a feedback control.
  • the channel transfer function estimates may, for example, be obtained using Viterbi detection and/or processing of pilot signals containing known training sequences, or by any other suitable known method.
  • WO-A-0072465 discloses a transmit diversity scheme wherein the antenna weights of the transmitter are determined based on feedback information received from the receiver.
  • a closed-loop signaling method for controlling multiple transmit beams such as a closed-loop transmit diversity or a closed-loop multi-input multi-output (MIMO) signaling method, which is free from the above mentioned drawback and thus optimized in terms of its feedback signaling in order to minimize the overhead due to said signaling.
  • MIMO multi-input multi-output
  • this object is for example achieved by a closed-loop signaling method for controlling multiple transmit beams, comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of at least two beams from a first transceiver via a plurality of transmission channels at a second transceiver, evaluating, at said second transceiver, characteristics of said plurality of beams received at said second transceiver, determining at least one dominant beam using said characteristic, deriving control information for being fed back from said second transceiver to said first transceiver, based on said evaluated characteristics, wherein said control information for dominant characteristics is allocated a different quantization resolution as compared to a less dominant beam.
  • this object is for example also achieved by a transceiver device, adapted for being used in a closed-loop signaling method for controlling multiple transmit beams, said transceiver device comprising reception means adapted to receive a plurality of at least two beams from another transceiver via a plurality of transmission channels, evaluation means adapted to evaluate, characteristics of said plurality of beams, determination means adapted to determine at least one dominant beam using said characteristic, derivation means adapted to derive control information for being fed back from said transceiver (UE) to said first transceiver, based on said evaluated characteristics, wherein said control information for dominant characteristics is allocated a different quantization resolution as compared to a less dominant beam.
  • a beam may correspond to a spatial channeland determining the parameters for at least two beams may be effected for beams which are possibly different from the ones from which the channel estimates were obtained from.
  • the concept as proposed by the present invention resides in allocating fewer bits to represent less dominant feedback beams than to more dominant ones. Namely, since feedback signaling capacity as such is often fixed and therefore limited, according to the present invention (long-term) feedback coefficients are progressively, i.e. differently quantized according to their dominance. Thereby, better gain out of relevant/dominant downlink diversity beams can be obtained.
  • the quantization resolution may thus depend, for example, on the magnitude of the eigenvalues, measured at the user equipment (using e.g. common or dedicated pilot channels).
  • This invention thus proposes a particular quantization concept in which the beams (signaled from UE to Node_B) which have a smaller effect on the capacity or on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio SNR gain of a given user is allocated fewer bits, and those beams that have a significant effect are allocated more bits.
  • a beam means a spatial transmission channel.
  • Each antenna element may emit one beam, while it is also possible that depending on the antenna characteristic one antenna element may emit plural beams. For simplicity, however, the subsequent description will assume that one beam per antenna element is being emitted.
  • Fig. 2 shows a flowchart of the method steps according to the present invention, when implemented in the user equipment. Note that the processing need not be restricted to be implemented solely at the user equipment. In terms of minimizing a required signaling between network components, however, the implementation at the user equipment is advantageous.
  • step S20 the user equipment as a second transceiver UE receives a plurality of at least two beams from a first transceiver, i.e. the Node_B via a plurality of transmission channels h1,..., hm. (Each beam travels via a slightly different transmission channel and is thus subjected to a respective different channel transfer function.)
  • step S22 an evaluation of the respective beam characteristics is performed, followed in step S23 by determining the desired beams and classifying said desired beams according to a comparison of said evaluated characteristics such that at least one of said desired beams is judged to represent a dominant beam.
  • the beam characteristics are mutually compared to each other to find the most dominant, "best" one.
  • the characteristics could be compared to a threshold value, and only those found to be above said threshold would be compared further with each other to find the most dominant beam.
  • control information to be fed back from said user equipment to said Node_B is derived for each beam.
  • the control information is based on and/or corresponds to the evaluated characteristics. However, since the deriving of the control information as such is not a primary concern of the invention as proposed, this is not explained here in greater detail.
  • step S25 If in step S25 a respective beam is judged to be the most dominant beam (YES in S25), the flow proceeds to step S26, where this dominant beam is allocated a high resolution for the corresponding feedback information of said beam. If, in contrast thereto, step S25 yields that the beam is not dominant, no high resolution (a lower resolution than the high resolution) is allocated to the feedback information for the representation of the respective less dominant beam (S26).
  • the high resolution may be predetermined or may be determined by e.g. the user equipment.
  • the dominant beam may be allocated 8-PSK resolution and the remaining beams QPSK and/or BPSK resolution. It is possible that the dominant beam is allocated the highest resolution and that all other beams are allocated a common lower resolution. Nevertheless, it is also possible that the less dominant beams are allocated or represented with different resolutions, e.g. that the less dominant beams are split into two classes of less dominant beams, one class (e.g.
  • the most dominant one of the less dominant beams being allocated QPSK resolution, the others being allocated BPSK (assuming 8-PSK being allocated to the most dominant beam).
  • the less dominant beams may be subjected to the same processing as initially, so that among the less dominant beams the relatively most dominant beam is determined and/or classified. Hence, according to such a scheme, the dominance of the beams is progressively determined.
  • the feedback information is sent in step S28 from the user equipment to the Node_B, and the flow returns to step S21, where the beams controlled/modified using the feedback information are then received, etc.
  • the characteristics can be calculated using channels estimates using beams with fixed coefficients (e.g. from M channels, each transmitted with a fixed coefficient from different antenna elements, in 3GPP CPICH channels are transmitted). Alternatively, the characteristics can be differential to the previously quantized and signaled desired beams.
  • the first approach discusses a particular array parameterization and the second is based on dimension reduction trough eigenvalue decomposition.
  • the feedback can be defined so that it determines a transmit direction such that the received signal power is maximized.
  • this approach finds the array vector which best matches with the (instantaneous) downlink channel.
  • ⁇ diag [ ⁇ 1 ,..., ⁇ m ], "diag” denoting the diagonal matrix having matrix elements differing from zero only in its diagonal.
  • the eigenvector e 1 maximizes the signal power at the receiver.
  • the terminal/user equipment can send only the relevant parameter(s) when controlling the array.
  • the same relative phase calculated e.g. using common channel measurements, is used between the neighboring transmitting elements.
  • the current feedback Mode 2 can support eight transmit directions, e.g. when the phase of the feedback word is used to represent the transmit direction, even if the gain bit in the feedback word is neglected. It is clear that the proposed parameterization reduces the required number of feedback bits, and it holds Mode 2 of the standardized two antenna concept as a special case (when there are only two transmitting elements). With this concept the terminal can control the transmit direction so that the instantaneous signal power is maximized.
  • the dominant eigenvectors (or their parameters) are signaled to the base station/Node_B in feedback signaling.
  • the base station transmits then to the user equipment UE these dominant long-term beams, e.g. using any desired open-loop transmit diversity concept. Note that short-term feedback is determined in the above concept when P is within the channel coherence time.
  • the base station can request fast feedback that is conditioned on the long-term beams
  • L 2 these two effective channels be used in place of h 1 and h 2 when calculating short-term feedback information using eq. (1).
  • Selecting the strongest beam on a slot-by-slot basis as proposed by Utschick et al (mentioned before) is one possibility.
  • soft-weighted STTD space-time transmit diversity
  • Siemens proposed the so called eigenbeamformer concept without specifying how the long-term beams are quantized optimally. There it is only stated that one can have a certain number of bits to quantize the gain and the phase of each element of each eigenbeam. Furthermore, it seems to be assumed that whatever the quantization method is, the same method is used for all eigenbeams.
  • the method proposed in this invention (applicable to both concepts as outlined above in section 1.1. and 1.2. )fixes a general approach for quantizing the transmit beams.
  • the invention is not restricted to the use of eigenbeams, and the same approach can be used also with parameterized beams or for any other method of calculating long/short-term beams at the terminal (as long as they are signaled to the BS/Node_B).
  • the proposed method suggests simply a concept in which the (eigen)beam with the largest eigenvalue has a higher resolution feedback (with more feedback bits) than the beams with smaller eigenvalues.
  • the dominance in this context corresponds for example to the relative magnitude of the eigenvalue.
  • it can be determined by evaluating the effective (relative) received power
  • each element of the dominant eigenvector to 8-PSK constellation and the elements of the remaining eigenvectors to QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) or BPSK (binary phase shift keying), as their effect on capacity is less pronounced.
  • the first component is assumed, without loss of generality, to have phase 0.
  • bit allocation can thus depend on the eigenvalues or the effective received powers for given parameterized beams. It is clear the gain can be quantized also differently for dominant and non-dominant beams, although this is omitted above for clarity.
  • the dominant beams are determined, i.e. how the beam characteristics are evaluated, whether by calculation (adaptively or by using some matrix decomposition) or in other manners, but once the dominant beams are detected/determined, the feedback information related thereto are represented with higher resolution.
  • Asymmetric quantization as proposed in connection with the present invention refers to the case where the more dominant beams have more quantization bits.
  • uniform quantization is used in which the elements of the dominant beams are quantized with 3 bits per dimension and the elements of the second largest or less effective beam is quantized with only 1 bit per dimension.
  • the same number of feedback bits are transmitted to the base station, the number being M - 1 * 2 * 3 dominant beam + M - 1 * 2 * 1 secondbeam .
  • the UE can determine the bit allocation and incorporate this knowledge to uplink signaling format (similar to methods used in source coding.
  • uplink signaling format similar to methods used in source coding.
  • 2 bits/per dimension on average is sufficient as the loss when compared to 10 bit quantization is not very high, when these bits are allocated asymmetrically to different beams.
  • the method can he used with parametric channels, in which case the dominant parameterized beam is allocated more bits to represent the beam (e.g. higher resolution direction of transmission for dominant beams).
  • the method can be used also with a sequential updating scheme proposed by W. Utschik et al.
  • the dominant beam is updated with higher resolution feedback.
  • the characteristic features can be calculated e.g. using the difference of the correlation matrix from which the previous beams coefficients were calculated, and the current correlation matrix. Alternatively, it is calculated from the generalized eigenvalue of the said matrix pair.
  • the present invention relates to a closed-loop signaling method for controlling multiple transmit beams, comprising the steps of receiving S21 a plurality of at least two beams from a first transceiver, Node_B, via a plurality of transmission channels at a second transceiver UE, evaluating S22, at said second transceiver, characteristics of said plurality of beams received at said second transceiver, determining at least one dominant beam using said characteristic, deriving S24 control information for being fed back from said second transceiver UE to said first transceiver, Node_B, based on said evaluated characteristics, wherein said control information for dominant characteristics is allocated a different quantization resolution as compared to a less dominant beam S25, S26, S27.
  • the present invention relates to a transceiver device (UE), adapted for being used in such a closed-loop signaling method for controlling multiple transmit beams.
  • the user equipment UE calculates the [unquantized or quantized] dedicated beams using downlink channels transmitted from arbitrary common downlink beams, determines the ones that would give the best SNR (dominant), then signals these beam coefficients to the base station, and the base station uses these to modify transmission with respect to the common beam.
  • the UE does classifies the beams derived from common channel measurements. Also, it does not have to be a common channel, but any probing channel. In WCDMA it is likely to be a common channel, however.
  • the characteristics are measured using probing beams B1, B2,....,Bm (e.g. the channel estimates are obtained by measuring the channel coefficients h1,h2....hm, from all transmit beams to all receive antennas).
  • the characteristic features of these channels are calculated, and the dominant characteristics are determined.
  • the UE determines at least two parameterized m-dimensional weighting vectors based on dominant characteristics, and these are used to linearly combine the signals transmitted from the m (probing) beams.
  • the parameterized m-dimensional weighting vectors that corresponds to the dominant characteristic is represented with a different number of quantization bit than at least one non-dominant weighting vector.
  • the probing beams can be the same (but need not be) for all users, but the weighting vectors are different for different users.
  • the data can be distributed to the multiple transmit beams using any known coding & modulation method (space-time coding, turbo coding, etc), and the selection may depend on the data rate requirement.
  • the number of information bits transmitted from the dominant beams may be higher than the number of bits (data rate) in the less dominant beams.
  • the transmit power of less dominant beams may be lower than that of the dominant ones.
  • the multiple beams can be used for diversity or MIMO purposes.
  • different beams can carry different substreams of (coded) data, different parts of space-time block codes, such that the data rate is the same in corresponding single-antenna transmission, as an example.
  • MIMO data rate increase using multiple transmit (and receive) antennas
  • the data rate is increased with multiple parallel transmission with at least partially different modulation or coding.
  • Different beams can also have a different data rate, depending on channel characteristics.

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  1. Procédé de signalisation en boucle fermée destiné à commander des faisceaux d'émission multiples,
    comprenant les étapes consistant à :
    - recevoir (S21) une pluralité d'au moins deux faisceaux en provenance d'un premier appareil émetteur / récepteur (Node_B) par le biais d'une pluralité de canaux de transmission au niveau d'un deuxième appareil émetteur / récepteur (UE),
    - évaluer (S22), au niveau dudit deuxième appareil émetteur / récepteur, des caractéristiques de ladite pluralité de faisceaux reçue au niveau dudit deuxième appareil émetteur / récepteur,
    - déterminer au moins un faisceau dominant en utilisant ladite caractéristique,
    - faire dériver (S24) des informations de commande destinées à être envoyées en retour depuis ledit deuxième appareil émetteur / récepteur (UE) vers ledit premier appareil émetteur / récepteur (Node_B), sur la base desdites caractéristiques évaluées, dans lequel :
    - lesdites informations de commande pour des caractéristiques dominantes se voient attribuer une résolution de quantification différente de celle qui est attribuée à un faisceau moins dominant (S25, S26, S27).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel :
    ladite résolution de quantification attribuée audit faisceau dominant (S25, S26) est plus élevée que celle qui est attribuée à un faisceau moins dominant.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel :
    ladite pluralité de faisceaux constitue un ensemble de faisceaux paramétré ; et
    lesdites caractéristiques desdits faisceaux sont représentées par des paramètres de paramétrage.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 3, dans lequel :
    lesdites caractéristiques sont basées sur une valeur de décomposition propre de la matrice de corrélation qui est basée sur la matrice de canal des réponses impulsionnelles de canal de la pluralité de canaux.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 4, dans lequel :
    les faisceaux qui ont l'effet le plus important sur la puissance de signal reçu représentent les faisceaux dominants.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 4, dans lequel:
    le paramètre de paramétrage qui a la valeur maximum est déterminé comme représentant le faisceau dominant.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel :
    lesdites caractéristiques sont basées sur une valeur propre ou une décomposition de matrice de la matrice de corrélation pondérée à long terme ou bien de la matrice de corrélation pondérée à court terme qui est basée sur une pluralité de matrices de canal instantanées des réponses impulsionnelles de canal de la pluralité de canaux.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 7, dans lequel :
    le faisceau propre qui a la valeur propre maximum est déterminé comme représentant le faisceau dominant.
  9. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel :
    lesdites caractéristiques sont basées sur une analyse de composants indépendante desdites réalisations de canal, ou bien une matrice de canal, ou bien une matrice de corrélation de canal qui donne lieu à une indication de puissance relative par faisceau.
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel :
    lesdites caractéristiques sont estimées de façon adaptative à partir de signaux reçus.
  11. Procédé selon la revendication 9, dans lequel :
    le faisceau correspondant à l'indication de puissance relative qui indique la puissance relative la plus élevée, est déterminé comme représentant le faisceau dominant.
  12. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel :
    lesdites informations de commande pour ledit faisceau déterminé comme étant dominant se voient attribuer une résolution de quantification prédéterminée.
  13. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel :
    ledit deuxième appareil émetteur / récepteur (UE) détermine la résolution de quantification qui doit être attribuée audit faisceau déterminé comme étant dominant.
  14. Procédé selon la revendication 1, 2 ou 12, dans lequel :
    lesdites informations de commande pour ledit faisceau ou lesdits faisceaux déterminé(s) comme étant dominant(s), se voient attribuer une constellation de résolutions de quantification 8-PSK, et une constellation de résolutions de quantification QPSK ou BPSK est attribuée aux informations de commande pour les autres faisceaux moins dominants.
  15. Procédé selon la revendication 13, dans lequel :
    lesdites informations de commande pour ledit faisceau déterminé comme étant dominant, se voient attribuer une constellation de résolutions de quantification 8-PSK ou QPSK, et une constellation de résolutions de quantification QPSK ou BPSK, ou une constellation de résolutions de quantification BPSK, est attribuée, respectivement, aux informations de commande pour les autres faisceaux moins dominants.
  16. Appareil émetteur / récepteur (UE), adapté pour être utilisé dans un procédé de signalisation en boucle fermée destiné à commander des faisceaux d'émission multiples, ledit appareil émetteur / récepteur comprenant :
    - des moyens de réception adaptés pour recevoir une pluralité d'au moins deux faisceaux en provenance d'un autre appareil émetteur / récepteur (Node_B) par le biais d'une pluralité de canaux de transmission,
    - des moyens d'évaluation adaptés pour évaluer des caractéristiques de ladite pluralité de faisceaux,
    - des moyens de détermination adaptés pour déterminer au moins un faisceau dominant en utilisant ladite caractéristique,
    - des moyens de dérivation adaptés pour faire dériver des informations de commande destinées à être envoyées en retour depuis ledit deuxième appareil émetteur / récepteur (UE) vers ledit premier appareil émetteur / récepteur (Node_B), sur la base desdites caractéristiques évaluées, dans lequel :
    - lesdites informations de commande pour des caractéristiques dominantes se voient attribuer une résolution de quantification différente de celle qui est attribuée à un faisceau moins dominant (S25, S26, S27).
  17. Appareil émetteur / récepteur selon la revendication 16, adapté pour être utilisé dans un procédé de signalisation en boucle fermée destiné à commander des faisceaux d'émission multiples, selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes 2 à 15.
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